The umbrella, we all have used it probably sometime in our life. Whether it’s to protect us from sunlight, rain or some other bothersome object. But whenever you take it out, you must have heard that it’s not a good thing to open it inside and that you should wait till you’re outside. Where does this superstition of opening your umbrella outside come from? The umbrella is an old african invention, so the superstition rightfully comes from Africa. The use of the umbrellas changed, Africans used to protect themselves from Sunlight but upon entering Europe, through Spain in the 12 century, the use changed to protect one from rain. The superstition started in Africa, people believed if you opened the umbrella inside the sun god would feel insulted and harm the people.
Some facts point that the umbrella or the parasol was first invented in the middle east like many [...] Continue Reading…
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Everybody has bought a piggy bank once, or has at least seen one. A pretty useful vessel to contain some change when you’re in a hurry. In medieval times, in England, pots and dishes were created with clay, that type of clay was called “pygg”. Much like now, pots were often used to keep some spare cash in the kitchen or in other areas in the house. Near 1600, an English pot maker got an offer to make a pot, though this one was unfamiliar with pygg bank, so he actually made a vessel in the shape of a pig. The pig had a slender hole on it’s back so you could put coins in it.
Since then piggy banks have become somewhat part of our culture. Rachel, is the biggest piggy bank in the world, it weights around 600 pounds and is made out of bronze.
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If you’ve ever seen anything army related, movie, book, you will know that we call the soldiers that operate on foot, infantry. This component of the army is the biggest, it has the most people in it too. Infantryman as they are called, the words meaning in Latin is non speaking, just like an infant who doesn’t reply back or refute back orders, soldiers were well trained to not answer back at a superior. Infantry also meant army ant in Latin, ants are the only other species than the humans to use army formations.
The word soldier comes from the word Solidus which meant a gold coin because it wasn’t cheap to raise an army of mercenaries.
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